At the OneMIT Commencement ceremony, Lisa Su ’90, SM ’91, PhD ’94, the chair and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, urged MIT's Class of 2026 to be ambitious about the problems they choose to solve.

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Lisa Su, chair and CEO of AMD and MIT alumna, delivered the 2026 MIT Commencement address sharing her journey from undergraduate student to tech executive. She reflected on how MIT's hands-on research culture shaped her engineering instinct, recounted turning around AMD by betting on high-performance computing, and urged graduates to run toward the hardest problems. She framed AI as a transformative force that amplifies human capability but emphasized that people — not technology — must decide which problems are worth solving and take responsibility for outcomes.

Commencement address by Lisa Su ’90, SM ’91, PhD ’94